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To: TimF who wrote (43099)	12/13/2005 8:27:14 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) of 90947

Just as long as they're a long way away. :-) I am playing Devil's Advocate. Certainly anything more powerful than a grenade or an artillery piece needs to be outlawed for private possession. Civil society cannot function if you just lob a grenade at a shopkeeper who you think shortchanged you. Weapons that can be converted to automatic fire should also probably be outlawed, although there is raging debate about that. And yet.... Did not Jefferson intend that 2nd amendment to allow citizens to overthrow a tyrannical gov't and restore republican gov't? And if the US Army has artillery pieces, grenades and nukes, and the air force has jets, missiles, and nukes, how can you really have any hope of doing that? You ultimately are dependent on soldiers- -now professional soldiers, mercenaries hired by the US gov't essentially- -to refuse to fire on the people and instead to overthrow the tyrant. But suppose the tyrant bribes them? This has happened often enough in world history. Or convinces them he is absolutely right? Hitler did. What then?

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